The Gate – #BORDERS
At the entrance of a mid-sized, freshly renovated office building stands a security check-up point. Manned with three guards and state of the art…
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Allegra Virtual Museum of Obscure Fieldwork Artefacts.
The origins of the European ethnographic museum clearly lie with the ‘cabinets of curiosities’. Allegra wishes to echo and humorously distort this approach to the ‘mysterious’ and the ‘exotic’. Like early ethnographers bringing back from the field material fragments of the ‘remote’ cultures they studied, our museum welcomes ‘treasures’ that tell stories of culture(s) but where meaning and classifications are not static or fixed. The artefacts that AVMoFA collects are media for communicating the constellations of knowledge about our contemporary world.
We are calling for weird ‘STUFF’ for ALLEGRA’s Virtual Museum of Obscure Fieldwork Artefacts (AVMoFA)! Send us your mementos, the stranger the better – the tie of a businessman, the headscarf of an American Muslim punk or perhaps the lyrics of a song? What about an obscure Power Point presentation, or a bullet point pen with a nice corporate logo? Join ALLEGRA in our search for the most extravagant fieldwork artefacts to be displayed at the AVMoFA – the only one of its kind in the WORLD! Send us your artefacts (virtually - Choose pictures with high resolution) with a short text explaining their origins, social functions, aesthetics…or whatever you want; we’re waiting at stuff(at)allegralaboratory.net!
Mass-produced Desire and the Doughnut Machine
We conclude our thematic week on #BODY with an AVMoFA entry by Paul Mullins & mass-produced desire via the Doughnut Machine. How exactly were…
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Caffeinated Politics
Based on Feldnotes of Zahir Pajaziti Square, Pristina, Kosovo It’s cooling down now, and the weather would be pleasant, except the sun’s in…
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Deadly Addiction
When I finally reach one of Barcelona’s drug-consumption centres, I run into a massive line of impatient consumers waiting at the doors, all hoping…
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ARTifacts : Art Meets Anthropology (Part 2)
Anthropologists have traditionally been artifacts (the products of man) collectors. This is the reason why Allegra felt compelled to open its own Virtual Museum…
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ARTifacts : Art Meets Anthropology (Part 1)
Since this week is dedicated to Allegra’s beloved AVMoFA we would like to share with you, dear readers, the marvellous ARTifacts collected by multi-media…
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Spraying Glamour at AVMoFA
Yesterday we brought you back to basics by introducing the idea behind AVMoFA. Today we continue by sharing a ‘jewel’ from our AVMoFA archives:…
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LOVE is in the air
It’s been a long year with MUCH fun and also work. It’s time for Allegra’s first SUMMER BREAK! And of course, the only way…
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Drug injection paraphernalia #BODY
In the proximity of neighbourhoods of Barcelona where drugs are sold, the entrances of buildings, parking lots as well as public spaces are transformed…
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Strude, the Danish Burka
The garment before your eyes is called ‘Strude’. I discovered its existence in 2010, while conducting research in Denmark on controversies around Islam that…
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Piggy-Bank
Several years ago I was a lead researcher on a project studying how faith-based nonprofit service organizations use social capital in their day-to-day functions….
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The American Dream!
For some climbers vans have become the ultimate commodity, a personified good that goes far beyond their initial displacement function. In Spain, well-known…
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